University of Arkansas at Monticello Athletics

The 1990 Cotton Blossoms basketball team becomes the second team honored by the UAM Sports Hall of Fame, joining the 1956 men's basketball team, winners of the school's first conference basketball title. 

The 1990 Blossoms were arguably the best team in school history, regardless of sport, posting a 34-3 record that ended with a runner-up finish at the NAIA Division I National Tournament.

Led by Tina Webb and Rose Avery, a pair of wondrously talented first team All-American forwards, the Blossoms averaged 100 points per game, defeated their opposition by an average of more than 25 points a game, won the AIC Championship and defeated their archrival, Arkansas Tech, in resounding fashion, 87-65 in the finals of the NAIA District 17 Tournament. In addition to Webb and Avery, the 1990 Blossoms boasted one of the best three-point shooters in the nation in Susan Pemberton and three, slick, tenacious guards in Brenda Rhodes, Kim Turner and Elisha Ramer. 

Other members of the team were Christine Kendall, Terrie Hinson-Sossamon, Katherine Avery, Ericka Walter, Wendi Gregory and Kathy Rowland. Team managers were Michele Ridgell-Reese and Deanna Patillo Klaus.